I have pulled up the various layers of carpet, tile, cement, etc. on our basement floor and arrived at the pictured wood. It is tounge and groove, 4.5 inches wide and rests directly on the floor joists. I have a few questions about what to do next. <\/p>\n
BTW, to give you an idea of the style I like – I want hardwood floors and I was thinking of going with re-claimed wood.<\/p>\n
Is this a wood worth saving (old growth pine)? If not I assume my best option is to have plywood (1\/2 or 3\/4 inch?) nailed on top of it and have hardwood put on top of the plywood.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have pulled up the various layers of carpet, tile, cement, etc. on our basement floor and arrived at the pictured wood. It is tounge and groove, 4.5 inches wide and rests directly on the floor joists. I have a few questions about what to do next. BTW, to give you an idea of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-15139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floors"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/08\/is-this-wood-wo\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Is This Wood Worth Re-Finishing?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/08\/is-this-wood-wo\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/08\/is-this-wood-wo\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Floors","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"HaHaYourDadsNotHandy"}],"creator":["HaHaYourDadsNotHandy"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2007-08-28T19:10:23Z","datePublished":"2007-08-28T19:10:23Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:40Z"},"rendered":"